America’s Achilles’ heel
To the Left
There is something comforting about relying on voting to fix all of our problems and pretending a broken system is functional.
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Professor Alan Ross talks Political Science 179, political engagement at UC Berkeley
Political Science 179, the undergraduate political science colloquium, tasks students with listening to speakers from across the political spectrum for one hour each week in exchange for a unit.
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Poverty in a crisis: Why we need UBI during COVID-19
Even before COVID-19, our welfare system was not effective — the pandemic has simply revealed the inadequacies of our political and economic infrastructure.
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Goodbye Bernie, we miss you
Fresh off the BART
Bernie did something that no other politician had done before: he listened to my community. He listened and understood the problems that Muslim Americans face, the ones we had given up hope of ever solving, and he told the country that Americans must do better.
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How much do students know about California’s primary election results?
The Daily Californian’s news editors hit Sproul to see what students know about the results from Super Tuesday.
The best campaign money can buy
Everything that is known about Michael Rubens Bloomberg — the man, the entrepreneur, the politician — is not difficult to find.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, President Donald Trump win CA presidential primary
With % of the vote, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has won the Democratic primaries in California, and Donald Trump won the Republican primaries at %.
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Presidential reactions: Who is making it into the race and why
In 2016, 5.2 million voters cast their ballots in California’s June 7 democratic presidential primary, months after Super Tuesday.
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Democratic primaries winner will be new status quo
The radical change we need in the world will not come from the benevolence of a good candidate, even one who claims to have a vision for a mass movement.
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March to the Polls for Bernie event builds momentum for Super Tuesday
Signs supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., were raised by a crowd of about 50 people on Sproul Plaza during the March to the Polls for Bernie event at noon March 2. The aim of the march was to build momentum for Sanders before Super Tuesday, bring people to a nearby polling location and help people understand how to vote.
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